SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 33 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing SAP 74 109 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.06% 5.28% 3.31%
As % of the Vendors category 8.19% 12.22% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 61
10th Percentile £391 £416 £413
25th Percentile £425 £481 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £591 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% +8.44% -0.91%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £695
90th Percentile £725 £842 £775
Central London median daily rate £625 £591 £543
% change year-on-year +5.75% +8.94% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 - -
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.19 - -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 904 892 1,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.56% 43.18% 43.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 555 784
10th Percentile £335 £313 £309
25th Percentile £414 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £551 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +0.55% -2.23%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £527 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.23% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 6
10th Percentile £20.06 £17.05 -
25th Percentile £20.66 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.19% +309.64% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.81 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £58.85 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 1 - -
SAP
Central London

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.35%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.35%) Confluence
1 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (41.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (8.11%) SAP EWM
3 4 (5.41%) SAP CO
3 4 (5.41%) SAP FI
4 3 (4.05%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (4.05%) SAP PM
4 3 (4.05%) SAP PP
4 3 (4.05%) SAP QM
5 2 (2.70%) NetSuite
5 2 (2.70%) SAP MDG
5 2 (2.70%) SAP MM
5 2 (2.70%) SAP Retail
5 2 (2.70%) SAP WM
6 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.35%) SAP HCM
6 1 (1.35%) SAP HR
6 1 (1.35%) SAP PLM
6 1 (1.35%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.86%) SuccessFactors
2 7 (9.46%) Azure
3 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) Boomi
5 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.70%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.70%) IaaS
5 2 (2.70%) iPaaS
5 2 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS
6 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.35%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.35%) Collibra
6 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
1 1 (1.35%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.70%) Looker
2 2 (2.70%) Tableau
3 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.35%) Metadata
3 1 (1.35%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.35%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.35%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) Postman
2 1 (1.35%) Selenium
2 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.35%) TestRail
2 1 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.08%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Legal
4 6 (8.11%) Marketing
5 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.05%) Banking
7 3 (4.05%) Billing
7 3 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Law
7 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Electronics
8 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Retail
8 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.35%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.35%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Consultant
2 13 (17.57%) SAP Consultant
3 11 (14.86%) Architect
4 9 (12.16%) Project Manager
5 8 (10.81%) Senior
5 8 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.46%) SAP Architect
7 6 (8.11%) Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) SAP Manager
7 6 (8.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Business Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 5 (6.76%) SAP Project Manager
9 4 (5.41%) SAP Trainer
9 4 (5.41%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Trainer
10 3 (4.05%) Developer
10 3 (4.05%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (4.05%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.70%) Web Services
3 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.35%) Faiss
3 1 (1.35%) HTML
3 1 (1.35%) IDoc
3 1 (1.35%) JSON
3 1 (1.35%) LangChain
3 1 (1.35%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.35%) LDAP
3 1 (1.35%) Playwright
3 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.35%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.35%) SAP ALE
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Business Workflow
3 1 (1.35%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.35%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.41%) FMCG
1 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.05%) Life Science
3 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.35%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.35%) IPTV
4 1 (1.35%) New Media
4 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.35%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 15 (20.27%) Migration
2 15 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (14.86%) ERP
4 10 (13.51%) Agile
5 9 (12.16%) Project Management
6 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (10.81%) Project Delivery
7 7 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.11%) Analytics
8 6 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (6.76%) Data Migration
9 5 (6.76%) Logistics
9 5 (6.76%) Validation
10 4 (5.41%) AI
10 4 (5.41%) Asset Management
10 4 (5.41%) Change Management
10 4 (5.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.41%) ABAP
1 4 (5.41%) SQL
2 2 (2.70%) C#
2 2 (2.70%) Python
3 1 (1.35%) C++
3 1 (1.35%) Java
3 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.35%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (9.46%) Degree
2 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
2 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) ACCA
3 1 (1.35%) APMG
3 1 (1.35%) PhD
3 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.35%) PMP
3 1 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) PMO
4 1 (1.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) IFRS
4 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) Salesforce
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle
4 5 (6.76%) Workday
5 3 (4.05%) Databricks
6 2 (2.70%) Ariba
6 2 (2.70%) Google
6 2 (2.70%) OpenText
6 2 (2.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.35%) Citrix
7 1 (1.35%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.35%) HP
7 1 (1.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.35%) IFS
7 1 (1.35%) Informatica
7 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft